Split String With Numbers in R

Question

I have the following string:

employees

[1] "e1 e2 e3 e4 e5"

and i want to separate it in five different elements, like this:

"e1" "e2" "e3" "e4" "e5"

I tried to solve this problem using the following line:

strsplit(employees,"" )

which yields this result:

[1] "e" "1" " " "e" "2" " " "e" "3" " " "e" "4" " " "e" "5"

What can i do to solve the problem and avoid the separation of characters and numbers?

Thank you!

`strsplit(employees," " )[[1]]` ? – Ronak Shah Sep 06 '18 at 06:23 — Ronak Shah, Sep 06 '18 at 06:23
@RonakShah I'd remove the question mark LOL :P – Tim Biegeleisen Sep 06 '18 at 06:24 — Tim Biegeleisen, Sep 06 '18 at 06:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '18 at 06:24

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You need to split by space, which appears to be the separator in your data:

x <- "e1 e2 e3 e4 e5"
unlist(strsplit(x, " "))

[1] "e1" "e2" "e3" "e4" "e5"

answered Sep 06 '18 at 06:24

Tim Biegeleisen

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